Reviews Flashcards
‘Enthralling windrush drama’ - The Guardian
‘Matryoshka doll effect’ [talking about starting with a screen that goes into a bigger screen
‘Enthralling windrush drama’ - The Guardian
The constructions of the story works so fluidly with the assembly of the set it is enthralling to behold’
‘Enthralling windrush drama’ - The Guardian
‘Levy’s novel, written as parallel narratives’ ‘Edmundson’s adaptation sets Queenie at the centre.’ ‘Hortense opens the production but her story is placed on pause for too long while Queenie takes centre stage […] HOrtense re-emerges and we never feel quite as close to her again.’
‘Enthralling windrush drama’ - The Guardian
‘Gilbert shines brightest with indefatigable good nature underscored with simmering anger and fierce intelligence
‘Levy’s Windrush epic makes momentous theatre’
‘Equally buoyed by the false hope that postwar Britain will be a land of opportunity’
‘Levy’s Windrush epic makes momentous theatre’
‘Edmundson takes a more linear approach then Levy’
‘Levy’s Windrush epic makes momentous theatre’
‘A helter-skelter affair charting the three main character’ urge to escape’ [talking about the movement between jamaica and Britain]
‘Levy’s Windrush epic makes momentous theatre’
‘It is a play about lies; and the biggest lie of all is that Britain would both welcome and utilise the talents of its fellow citizens from Jamaica’
‘Visually ravishing’
‘As a society we have thankfully evolved from the kind of mindset that leads Queenie to her decision, […] too many veins of hatred running through Europe and beyond for us to feel reassured that such a situation may never happen again’
‘I defy anyone not to feel emotional at the extraordinary conclusion’
visualy ravishing
‘Romantic delusion’
visual ravishing
She realises she wants him to be much more than a partner in crime.’
